A Canadian researcher Prof I know who lived in the US for many years and held a prof position at a US institution. He lead a lead major breakthrough in high precision measurements of fundamental particles, and was leading several major experiments, and bringing lots of research money. With the current US administration busy destroying fundamental physics research and funding paths, this researcher recently accepted an offer at a top Canadian university. He relocated his family and his entire research team of mostly US graduate students and US post-docs to Canada. This rock-star researcher had standing offers at top US universities. He's on the sort of trajectory that leads to prestigious international prizes. His story is being repeated across the US in science and medicine. Canada and other countries are not focused on recruiting any researcher in the US. They are focused on landing top talent. Even if the US dumps the MAGA party, and congress funds a major long-term effort to restore its powerhouse of scientific and medical research, the process will take decades.

Just search it up. Finland provides really really good public primary and secondary schools and teachers for their kids. From Wiki... " All primary and secondary teachers must hold a master’s degree, and teaching is one of the most prestigious and selective professions in the country." Kids in Finland learn how to learn. Most likely they are using more of their screen time for that.

is not how it works. Especially with billionaire tech bros. Trust is build on an established track record of actions the earn trust. Need I go on?

A tour de force experiment and an important result, if correct. Most journal papers would require an embargo on announcing a result of this significance until the paper is published. Let's see the reviewed journal paper. Following that, in high energy particle physics the " is this result correct?" question would be answered through confirmation by an independent experiment. Unfortunately there are no other particle accelerators operating that could produce enough J/psi decays to confirm/reject this finding. As the Chinese scientific programs keep rolling with strong long term funding we can expect more of these unconfirmed discoveries. Unlike the US, which is gutting it's basic research programs, China has been on the opposite trajectory for many years. They may end up doing the confirmations themselves. As was done back in the day when the J/psi meson was discovered independently in the US at particle accelerators at SLAC and BNL.

The Duty to Save Lives: Federal law (46 U.S.C. 2304), the SOLAS Convention, and UNCLOS Article 98 mandate that ship masters proceed with all speed to rescue persons in distress at sea.Penalties for Refusal: In the United States, failing to render assistance when able can result in criminal penalties, including a fine up to $1,000 and imprisonment for up to 2 years Likely Zuck would be able to throw his ship's master under the bus for this. And the BS about being on a different channel. You are expected monitor VHF channel 16. It's not hard.

a model can fit any data set. The down side is the model is not useful.

at about $567/10 yrs = $60M/yr Zuckerberg spends more than that each year maintaining his fleet of yachts.

This time it's GOP politicians worried about loosing re-election in the midterms. Despite a Mighty Wind of speechifying, faux news support, and Epstein class PAC contributions. Even MAGA's get pissed off when their electric rates sky rocket and their house goes hot and dark.

Probably not yet. But the growth trajectory of the size and scope of these deals and the wealth and power of the Epstein billionaire class making these bets is concerning. Deals for ever more energy, compute, chips, AI algorithms for sale and rent, data centers, and data scraping, especially personal data, obtained legally or otherwise. These billionaires operate in different world where they are the superior chosen few, and the rest of us are there for the fleecing.

See, for example, the /. story from today "Truth Social To Sell Wall Street Firms the 'Fastest' Access To Trump's Post" Or White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt "We have strict ethical guide lines". Or just ask the Orange One's fellow Epstein class billionaires.

not by the price gouging and scalping. That's fundamental to StubHub's business model. But only $5M? WFT? Oh, and look for a $10 "activist judge" surcharge on the next 5M tickets sold.

Big Tobacco business model needed to hook teenagers on their products which they did with WW2 GIs. The negative health effects over time are physical and easy to illustrate - think autopsies of lungs of smokers vs non-smokers. But it still took 50 years, from WW2 to the 1964 Surgeon General report to the 1990's to get smoking banned in most public places. Big Tech/ Social Media business model needs people addicted to their products too - laptops and lots of screens in grade schools, social media platforms aimed at kids and very young kids all the way to grandparents.. Unfortunately negative health effects are primarily psychological. People can still breath fine. So will it take more than 50 years to rein in Big Tech/Social Media? Hopefully not. Hell, even Bill Gates and Steve Jobs had strict restrictions on screen time/devices for their kids. https://finance.yahoo.com/news...

so why just NYC? How about for all of the US? Oh, wait. elections have consequences.

and his decision to leave is certainly reinforced by the proposed OMB rule changes (enshitification) of the research grant process that would extend across 40+ federal agencies including NSF, NIH, DOE .... https://www.aps.org/initiative... While the Chinese process for funding research has its problems, scientists and engineers are well represented in the National People’s Congress and the CCP central committee, and the funding for science research reflects their priorities. This is not the case in the US Congress. Instead across GOP gerrymandered districts we elect anti-vaxers, climate change deniers, those who know the earth is 4000 years old. And our Dear Leader who appointed the architect of Project 2025 to head the OMB.

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